Re: [PATCH] perf annotate: Numeric assembly labels cause incorrectannotation

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 08:31:15 EST



* Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 12:40 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:55:35PM +1100, Anton Blanchard escreveu:
> > >
> > > A perf annotate of a kernel function written in assembly shows
> > > very strange percentages:
> >
> > Thanks! I think this is the same problem Mike Galbraith noticed and
> > reported me (I guess that was in a private message), Mike, can you
> > please test it so that I can add more Foo-by stamps to this one?
>
> Sorry for the slow response (bz bz).
>
> I don't see that problem, but perf top annotation isn't
> working properly in tip at least. It seems to have forgotten
> how to average, seems to be clearing hit counts at every
> screen refresh or something.

hm, seems to work fine here. We used to have such a bug recently
(as of a few weeks [days?] ago), but latest -tip does not show
those symptoms.

Thanks,

Ingo
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